Maureen Webb Joins Prism as a Regular Contributor

I would like to inform our readers that Maureen Webb has joined the Prism family of respected contributors. Maureen is a long-time social activist. She has extensive experience and knowledge in all subjects related to total surveillance society such as data mining. She has written an excellent book about the subject that I recommend to everyone. Here is her complete biography:

Maureen Webb is a human rights lawyer and author of the book, Illusions of Security: Global Surveillance and Democracy in the Post 9-11 World (San Francisco: City Lights, 2007). She was a litigator for some of Canada’s first Charter cases, including the landmark Lavigne case and a case challenging the powers of the newly instituted Canadian Security Intelligence Service. In 2001 she was a Fellow at Columbia University’s Human Rights Institute. She has served as Co Chair of the International Civil Liberties Monitoring Group and is currently a Director of Lawyers’ Rights Watch Canada. Maureen has spoken about security issues across Canada and the United States in the media, in policy forums, at universities and before Parliamentary committees. She was an advisor to Members of Parliament on the review of the Canadian Anti-terrorism Act and the revision of the security certificate regime. Her article on the Anti-terrorism Actwas cited extensively in the judgment (R. v. Khawaja) striking down the definition of ‘terrorism’ on constitutional grounds.